#29 Relax & Sleep Hypnosis Daily (Jason Newland)

Hello and welcome to jasonnewland.com. My name is Jason Newland. This is Sleep Hypnosis Weekly.

Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes. And I'd like to apologise for the delay between this recording and the previous one. It's probably been about five weeks.

So I'm sorry about that. And I'm going to try to try to stick to the regular weekly because that's the type of podcast it should be weekly, shouldn't it? So I'd also like to say thank you to everybody that continues to listen and download these recordings from this podcast. So thank you very much.

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But anyway, that's as much as I can do. So thank you very much for your continued support. And I am sitting in my squeaky chair, I'll try and keep it as quiet as possible.

But sometimes the chair is just squeaky, which is not ideal. I'll try and sit still. I would do this in the bedroom.

But unfortunately, Andre has already grabbed the bed. So he's asleep in there. So I'm kind of doing in the living room instead.

So what I thought I would do is just talk to you. Just talk. And I'd like you to get yourself into a comfortable position.

Whether it's lying down on a comfortable supportive bed or sitting in a comfortable chair that also supports your body. Ideally one that isn't squeaky like mine. But then if it is squeaky, you're probably used to it.

So it's not going to be that problematic. And you're not necessarily going to be moving around much. But you do have that option to move if you need to.

So you may be sitting down or lying down. And you may be comfortable. And then perhaps you feel that you need to move your leg or your arm or perhaps you you feel you want to move and lay on your left side or your right side.

But because you're listening to this recording, you may think that you need to stay in one position. Well, you don't. Because your comfort is the priority.

Always. Your comfort and your safety is the number one priority. So if you feel more comfortable laying down on your left side, then do that.

I personally like to lay down on my back to start with. Relax, get comfortable. Notice my body relaxing.

And I like the feeling of just lying there, noticing your body relaxing. And there's pleasure in that. There's pleasure.

And I don't think I've heard many people in the past that talk about relaxation in a sense of pleasure. Because it is a pleasurable experience. And there may be background sounds.

Even though it's early in the morning, I've got neighbours that like to be neighbourly and share their sounds with everybody else, which is lovely of them. Very generous. But that's another thing about relaxing and feeling tired and letting your body and your mind relax, is that you don't need it to be completely silent.

You don't need that sterile environment. Because you're going to, in reality, it's going to be quite difficult to find anywhere that's really completely silent for any length of time. Even if you went and sat on the top of a mountain, you're still going to have the wind.

You know, if you go and sit near the sea, you've got the sounds of the sea. If you find a, like a cave in a mountain, then you're going to have seagulls. So you'll hear a seagull farting or something.

You know, it's always going to be a sound. And for me, it's about differentiating the word noise and sound. Because the word noise has emotions attached to it.

The word sound doesn't. I don't think it does. Not for me, it doesn't.

It's just a word. Just it describes an auditory process occurring. You know, vibrations in the air, which we call sound.

But the word noise, that adds a degree of displeasure to that sound. So maybe there's a there's a benefit from lying down on your bed and actually allowing those sounds to be there without thinking of them as noises. But just sounds.

It's always sound. Even if it's just, you know, the humming of the fridge from the kitchen. It might be the sound of the central heating.

I have that here. It almost sounds like there's someone hidden inside the radiators, sending Morse code messages to each other. But it's part of the process.

It's part of the building. I hear, sometimes you can hear the actual building kind of shifting a bit, you know. And the wood, maybe the front door expands, if it's wooden, you know, in the summer, in the winter, you know, just little sounds.

I've got birds in my loft. I hear the birds up there. But to me, it's not noise, it's sound.

Now, if the birds are up there playing a trumpet, then that would be noise. That's how I would start thinking. Now that is noise, depending on how, you know, perfectly in tune they were.

A little orchestra of pigeons. But that same mentality of the word sound could be also used when you focus on your body. Differentiating between discomfort and a feeling.

So it's a feeling. And I was going to say just a feeling. But I'm aware that that feeling may be problematic in your life.

So I don't want to, I don't want to, you know, play down something that may be of difficulty in your everyday life, possibly. Something like chronic pain and stuff like that. But when you're laying down on your bed, you don't need it.

It doesn't need to be, it doesn't need to have a label like that. It can just have the label of a feeling. If you choose to do that, of course, I can't make you, you know, I can't make you think any specific way that will be useful to help you sleep easier.

But then you're listening to this, so that proves to me that your mind is open to those positive suggestions and ideas that may be useful to lead you to a more comfortable way to ease yourself into that zone, that energy of drifting from being awake, crossing that bridge to being asleep. And it's only a short journey, really. But a lot of it can be belief.

And it's an easy sentence to say, I know. But what you think and what you believe, or what we think and what we believe, because I'm also part of this process, is hugely important to realize that actually, if you genuinely believe that the body is going to relax, your head touches the pillow, the body naturally relaxes, your mind starts to slow down, that internal chatter that you had before, maybe previous evenings, slows down.

And if before you lie down on your bed, you expect that when you lie down on your bed, and your head touches the pillow, that your body will automatically and naturally relax.

Relax. And your mind will automatically and naturally slow down. Then that is what will happen.

And the only reason it wouldn't happen is if you start questioning it. Which is perfectly fine to do. Because you are in charge of this process.

You are in control over what you do next. At all times, you're the boss of you. I know it doesn't always seem that way.

It doesn't always appear to be the case. Sometimes we can feel that it's almost like there's an outside control, you know, keeping us awake or causing us to feel this way or, you know, there's no outside control, keeping us awake. There's habits, there's thinking, there's worrying, there's expectations.

If someone goes to bed expecting to be lying there for hours wide awake, then that's very much likely what's going to happen, if that's what they really believe is going to happen. So, just like you're in control if you turn onto your left side or if you turn onto your right side. You can control your body right now.

You might decide to just move the toes on your left foot because that's what you've decided to do. No one's made you do it. You decided to do it.

And when I say we choose what we do next and how we feel, of course, I'm not talking about every single feeling we have internally or physically because a lot of that is out of our control. But how we deal with it is up to us. So, we've always got the choice.

If you're walking, you turn left, you turn right, you stop, you turn around, you know, you choose yourself. So, when you're in bed, you can make that choice to go to bed with an assumption, an expectation that when you lie down on your bed, your head touches the pillow, your body automatically relaxes and your mind instantly starts to slow down. And you feel differently to how you did before and you start to wonder, can it really be this simple?

Can it really be this easy to sleep so easily and calmly just by almost giving yourself permission to relax deeply because that's what you're doing when you lie down on your bed.

You stretch out, your head touches the pillow, your body instantly starts to relax. And then your mind naturally slows down and you can actually enjoy lying down on your bed because it's a pleasurable experience to be there, to relax, to experience the sensations of your body relaxing all the different muscles of your body from the top of your head all the way down to your toes, relaxing, feeling so calm.

And that feeling, that physical sensation is pleasure.

It could almost be a case of, who cares about sleeping, let's just focus on the pleasure. Let's just enjoy this moment of feeling physically and emotionally uplifted, but not stimulated, but uplifted in a real kind of meditative way. Almost like maybe lying on a beach or sunbathing next to a swimming pool whilst on holiday, or having had a really busy day and then you just lay down on your bed and that feeling of your whole body for the first time for the maybe hours and hours you could just completely let go.

And it feels really nice and it's so relaxing, so very deeply calming. And when your body relaxes deeply, your mind automatically relaxes deeply. And of course, when your mind relaxes deeply, it causes your body to automatically relax even deeper.

So that's that constant circle of pleasurable relaxation continuing. And no thoughts of sleep are even required because you're just enjoying, feeling really relaxed and calm. It just feels good.

It feels almost blissful. And there's a lot to be said for this feeling. Just from a relaxation point of view, it feels really good and it's so usefully helpful and healthy for your mind and your body now and for the future.

Because your body starts to realize that you're allowing it. You've kind of given permission to your body to feel an extra level of relaxation to what you would perhaps normally feel. And your mind also realizes that this is what you want because this is what you're focusing on.

So therefore, your mind and your body will give you more of this because your mind is always trying to please you, your unconscious mind. It wants to give you what you want. So those things that you focus on, your mind goes the extra length.

It really goes all out to fulfill that wish for you. Which means when you focus on feeling completely relaxed, your mind takes that message on board. Literally.

That when you lay down on your bed, your head touches the pillow, it's time for your body to feel completely relaxed, full of pleasure, and your mind slows down completely. And then drifting off to sleep is just a natural process you don't even have to think about. In the same way as when you eat your food, you don't have to concentrate on digesting.

As long as you chew the food, eat it safely, swallow the food, your body takes care of the rest. So when you lie down on your bed, your head touches a pillow, your body naturally relaxes, and your mind slows down. There's nothing else for you to do.

Just like your digestive system, sleep is an automatic process. It doesn't need any conscious effort. In fact, consciously trying to force yourself to go to sleep is the exact opposite to what's required.

So you don't have to force yourself to go to sleep. You're much more likely to fall asleep if you lay there thinking, I don't care if I fall asleep. Really couldn't care.

I'm just enjoying feeling relaxed. This feels lovely. This pillow smells nice.

It's a nice temperature in the room. It's nice to have your eyes closed. It's nice to have feel supported by the bed.

And that's sleeping. Just like your digestive system, just like your heart, your lungs, your liver, kidney, your immune system, all that stuff, the blood flowing, sleeping is exactly the same. It's an automated process.

Something that we were born to do. Didn't have to learn it. We've had to learn nearly everything that we do in life.

From being a baby onwards, we've had to learn how to speak, how to read, how to walk, talk, and use a potty, you know, whatever. Everything, pretty much, we've had to learn, but not sleeping. We even had to learn how to eat, how to chew food.

Didn't have to learn how to sleep. We were born with that process, just as we were born with the process of our blood circulating through our body and our brain operating. It's an automatic process.

So it's all about getting out of our own way and allowing that process to just do its job. You were born with the ability to sleep deeply. That brings us to the end of this recording.

Sleep deeply, sleep safely, and enjoy the pleasure you get from relaxing, that deep pleasure from letting go completely, completely, letting go completely. Counting down from five down to one, and each number you feel 10 times as relaxed, physically and emotionally, 10 times relaxed. Five, four, three, two, one.